“The lessons of paternalism ought to be unlearned and the better lesson taught that while the people should patriotically and cheerfully support their government, its functions do not include the support of the people.”

"Veto of the Texas Seed Bill" (16 February 1887)

Source: Twitter post https://twitter.com/RoKhanna/status/1080272966250708992 (2 January 2019)

"Fall of a City"
Selected Poems (1941)
Context: All the lessons learned, unlearned;
The young, who learned to read, now blind
Their eyes with an archaic film;
The peasant relapses to a stumbling tune
Following the donkey`s bray;
These only remember to forget. But somewhere some word presses
On the high door of a skull and in some corner
Of an irrefrangible eye
Some old man memory jumps to a child
— Spark from the days of energy.
And the child hoards it like a bitter toy.

As quoted in Congressional Record https://web.archive.org/web/20160528155427/http://history.house.gov/People/Detail/18846, House, 44th Cong., 1st sess. (7 June 1876): pp. 3,667&amp;ndash;3,668 <br class="br">Speech to the U.S. House of Representatives (1876)

Source: The New Canada (1992), Chapter Thirteen, The Eventful Summer of 1990, p. 240

Rupert on the Issues (2011)

Press release: [2006-07-10, Reps. Ryan and Moore Unveil Child Support Pass-Through Legislation, paulryan.house.gov, http://paulryan.house.gov/news/documentprint.aspx?DocumentID=246775, 2012-09-30]

Source: Stations of the Tide (1991), Chapter 13, “A View from a Height” (p. 232)